Citation: All., Fl. Ped. 1:61 (1785). Bellardia, trixago bartsia.

Synonymy: Bartsia trixago L., Sp. Pl. 602 (1753), ('Bartschia' in some works is an orthographic variant).

Common name: None

Description:
Erect viscid herb 10-70 cm high, simple or with a few ascending branches arising from the middle nodes, densely covered by soft glandular and often stiff eglandular hairs; leaves narrow-lanceolate to linear, 15-90 x 1-15 mm, rounded at the base, coarsely dentate, the upper leaves with 4-6 pairs of teeth.

Racemes dense, with many subsessile flowers, the bracts becoming shorter, broad-ovate and more or less entire towards the upper nodes; calyx 8-10 mm long; corolla much longer than the calyx, 17-20 mm long along the upper side, purple to pink with a spreading whitish or ?yellow lower lip, rarely entirely white.

Capsule broad-ovoid to globular, as long as the enlarged persistent calyx, densely eglandular-strigose; seeds c. 0.6-71 mm long, white.

Image source: fig. 597 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Abrams (1951) Ill. Fl. Pacific States 3:fig. 4800; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 596.

Distribution:  On sandy soil in mallee scrub. S.Aust.: EP, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.   Native to the Mediterranean region. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Nov. — Jan.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

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